Koorero Toi: Hemi Macgregor – Toi is Rongoaa – CANCELLED

12 November 2022

1pm to 1:30pm

Free but registration required

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In conversation with curator Maree Mills, Hemi Macgregor will discuss his artworks featured in our exhibition, Toi is Rongoaa. Attendance is free for this artist talk but please register online as numbers are limited.

Hemi Macgregor (Ngaati Rakaipaaka, Ngaati Kahungunu, Ngaai Tūhoe) works primarily in painting and installation, his sculptural works often re-presenting and repurposing everyday objects.

In his current art practice Macgregor exemplifies the cultural importance of maintaining healthy sustainable relationships with the natural environment and consider how this approach contributes to people’s cultural and spiritual wellbeing. To inform this practice Macgregor explores puuraakau/customary narratives that express the relationships sky and water, sky and earth, the origins of light and the coming of spring and summer as a time of abundance.

Interested in this event? Check out Koorero Toi: Eugene Kara running directly afterwards at 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Toi is Rongoaa celebrates fourteen contemporary Maaori artists who believe in the importance of creative practice to their wellbeing. The invited artists have been supported by Creative New Zealand to make new work and share this essential kaupapa with our community.